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Her filthiness is in her skirts, She has soiled her name. She remembereth not her last end, The days when the Lord held her hand. Therefore she came down wonderfully, She faced her divine appointment. She had no comforter, No loving-kindness. O Lord, behold my affliction, No hearing ear. For the enemy hath magnified himself,Continue reading “Lamentations 1:9 ~ Her Filthiness”

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, She is weakened by by her appetites. Therefore she is removed, Carried off to her choices. All that honoured her despise her, Her lovers became her jailers. Because they have seen her nakedness, They are discussed with her pollutions; Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction, David said, “It is good for me,” And of her miseries, “That I have been afflicted.” All her pleasant things, “That I might learn thy statutes.” That she had in the days of old, When the Judges led Israel. When her people fell into the hand ofContinue reading “Lamentations 1.7 ~ They Still Do”

And from the daughter of Zion, To whom the command came not to stir up the Beloved, Whose help was sought to find the Shulamite’s lover, All her beauty is departed: Her princes; The wise, the just, the meek, Are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone, I sought them butContinue reading “Lamentations 1.6 ~ Princes”